Voice of Bart Simpson, atheist debate Scientology

May 11, 2011

SPRINGFIELD -- Don’t have a cow, man, but it sounded a little like cartoon character Bart Simpson debating a well-known suburban atheist today at the Capitol on the topic of Scientology and the classroom.

Nancy Cartwright, who supplies Bart with his quirky high-pitched voice, spoke in favor of a resolution that supported three options for character education in the state’s public school system, including Good Choices, a curriculum based on a code of conduct created by Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard.

According to the resolution, the Good Choices program would satisfy the state school code that states “every public school teacher shall teach … respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils’ honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others and moral courage for the purpose of lessening crime and raising the standard of good character.”